Rising From Ashes: The Don's Lost Queen
I gave up the peace of a civilian life to marry Dante, the most cold-blooded Don this city has ever known.
For years, I managed the chaos of his life and respected his lethal secrets.
But everything changed the moment he took a young soldier named Tess as his private secretary.
He let her sit in the passenger seat of his armored SUV—a spot strictly reserved for me—and even allowed her to answer his encrypted burner phones.
When I found her lipstick in his car, he simply said, "Don't be so paranoid."
I knew then that we were over.
So, on our fifth wedding anniversary, I left my wedding ring on his desk alongside a signed set of divorce papers.
I packed a single bag and walked out of his gilded cage, finally choosing to live for myself.
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Chapter 10
The moment the doctor delivered the news, Dante fell to his knees by my hospital bed. The ruthless mob boss collapsed, burying his face in my hands, his broad shoulders shaking with sobs. He begged for my forgiveness for two straight days.
I didn't push him away, but I didn't comfort him either. I just stared at the white ceiling and let him cry.
When I returned to the estate after being discharged, Dante was a different man. He made a grand show of cutting off all non-essential contact with Tess, intentionally leaving his encrypted phone unlocked on the kitchen counter, and reporting his whereabouts to me like a subordinate before leaving the house.
I looked at those black devices and pushed them back toward him. "I’m too tired to play this anymore." I turned and locked myself in the guest room.
His repentance was nothing more than a performance.
I had already bought a one-way ticket to a city far away.
On the day I packed my last bag, I looked around our shared walk-in closet.
I packed only a canvas duffel bag containing my ID, untraceable cash, and a few simple clothes.
I left behind all the expensive gowns, the custom heels, the millions of dollars in diamonds. I discarded every relic of the extravagant life I’d lived as the Godfather’s wife.
As I stood there silently, Dante was addressing the Commission, celebrating a Syndicate victory. The meeting was being broadcast live through the secure tablet in my room.
I stared blankly at the screen as an elderly Capo asked him the secret of his success. Dante stood at the head of the mahogany table, looking directly into the camera:
"I owe everything I am to my wife, Sienna."
The boardroom erupted in applause. My gaze involuntarily fell on Tess, standing in the shadows of the background. As the men cheered for me, she forced a stiff, pained smile.
I turned off the tablet.
The Mafia’s private courier service was already waiting. I handed him the divorce papers.
"And this." I took off the cheap wedding ring.
"Understood, ma'am. It will be delivered this afternoon," the courier confirmed and left.
I took a taxi to the airport and printed my boarding pass.
I stood at the gate, watching the planes pierce the overcast sky.
Seconds before final boarding, the phone in my pocket vibrated. Caller ID: Dante.
I pressed the green button and held it to my ear. Before Dante could speak, I heard Tess’s cheerful, breathless voice in the background:
"Boss, you were amazing today! Let's go celebrate... just the two of us."
I pulled the phone away from my ear, hit the red button, and handed my ticket to the gate agent.
Let it all end here, Dante.
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7.1
One look was all it took for the Golden Wolf to mark his prey.
To the glittering elite of Milan, Dante Moretti is a god among men, a billionaire mogul whose Midas touch turns every gold future into an empire. But beneath the bespoke Italian suits and the cold, amber eyes lies a monster. Sworn in as the new Capo of the Moretti Syndicate over his father's open casket, Dante is a man who rules with an iron grip and a heart of stone. He doesn't ask for what he wants. He takes it.
Then he saw Bianca.
Bianca Rossi is a creature of light, an innocent art student who finds beauty in the shadows of Milan's back alleys. She lives for her canvas and her dreams, unaware that a chance encounter in a midnight storm has placed her in the sights of the city's most dangerous predator.
Dante doesn't just want her. He is obsessed.
Using his billions like a silken web, Dante orchestrates a "gilded cage" for Bianca. From anonymous scholarships to lavish "chance" encounters, he draws her into a world of blood-stained gold and lethal power plays. But Bianca is no porcelain doll. Behind her soft beauty lies a fierce, indomitable spirit that refuses to be bought-or broken.
As a brutal war with the Ricci family threatens to burn Milan to the ground, Bianca must choose: flee the man who stalks her dreams, or stand beside the Wolf and become his Queen.
In a world where loyalty is paid in blood and love is a lethal weakness, will Dante's possessiveness be their salvation... or their ultimate destruction?
9.5
"My father sold me to a sixty-year-old monster to clear his gambling debts. So, I made a desperate gamble of my own."
Seventeen-year-old Isabella Rossi has two choices: become the broken plaything of a sadistic mafia Capo, or do the unthinkable. She chooses the latter. Sneaking into a high-end speakeasy, she slips an aphrodisiac into the whiskey of the deadliest man in New York—Damien Falcone, the ruthless Underboss of the Falcone family.
Her plan was simple: steal his seed, secure his protection, and run.
But you don’t drug a predator and expect to walk away.
When Damien wakes up, he doesn’t kill her. Instead, he claims her.
"You intercepted a delivery meant for my enemy. Turns out, it was you. Now, you are my Collateral."
7.6
Top DEA agent Kaitlynn Bruce woke up to a heavy, chemical lethargy, only to realize she was trapped in the body of a weak, abused war widow.
Before she could even process her new reality, she heard her sister-in-law counting cash, selling her unconscious body to a local thug for a measly two hundred dollars.
The thug dragged her new seven-year-old son, Cason, into the bedroom.
"Mommy!"
When the boy reached out, the man brutally kicked his small body into a wooden doorframe, leaving him gasping and bleeding on the floor.
Memories flooded Kaitlynn's mind. Her predecessor was a pathetic doormat whose husband's military pension had been bled dry by these greedy in-laws, leaving her children to starve and suffer endless abuse.
But as Kaitlynn looked at the bleeding boy's dark, unnervingly alert eyes, a chilling piece of DEA intelligence clicked in her mind.
Cason Richmond.
The name, the town, the abusive aunt—it all matched the classified files of the "Director of the Hive," the most ruthless and feared cartel puppet master in the criminal underworld.
How could this battered, starving child be destined to become the ultimate monster she used to hunt?
The original widow's tragic death was supposed to be the catalyst that pushed this boy into total darkness.
But Kaitlynn Bruce was not a victim.
Adrenaline burning through the drugs, she cracked the thug's neck with a brass lamp and choked the sister-in-law against the wall.
Looking down at the boy who was supposed to become a global nightmare, she made a vow. She was going to rewrite his script, even if she had to burn the whole world down to do it.
8.1
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"So wet for the enemy", he taunted, scissoring inside me and stretching my walls.
I moaned, throwing my head back and riding his hand. When he withdrew his fingers, I moaned at the loss. Adrian took his fingers to his mouth and wiped off my juices.
Fuck!
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9.4
Kidnapped, beaten and locked up, Aurora Puro Pucasso, The daughter of General Puro Pucasso, has her life turned upside down. One moment she's on her bed, the next, she's forcefully taken by Vincenzo West, and made to act like his wife Brielle, and the mother to his psychotic child in exchange for her to live.
What happens when every of Brielle's past comes to haunt her? Can she survive her new daughter's torment? What happen when the line between Reality and fiction start to blur between Aurora and Vincenzo.
8.7
I wasn't supposed to be here.
Girls like me don't belong to Alpha parties.
I came as a favor.
As a waitress.
As the poor best friend nobody notices.
Until he noticed me.
Fresh from the shower.
Bare chest. Water sliding down hard muscle.
Eyes like a predator that already chose its prey.
My best friend's father.
The Alpha King.
He helps me with my dress when the zipper gets stuck.
His fingers brush my skin.
My breath stutters.
The air changes.
He looks at me like he knows me.
Like he owns me.
Then the party turns ugly.
Hands grabbing. Drinks forced to my lips. Laughter is too loud.
And just when everything almost breaks
He comes for me.
Carries me out like I'm something precious. Something is his.
That night shouldn't have happened.
But the moon was high.
My body burned.
And when he whispered "mine" against my ear, I forgot every rule I ever lived by.
I woke up in his bed.
In his scent.
In his world.
I'm about to lie to my best friend... say I'm already home...
When I hear her voice outside his bedroom door.
"Dad? Breakfast's ready."
Dad.
Oh God.
The Alpha King isn't just my mistake.
He's hers.
And now he says I'm his mate.